{"id":537426,"date":"2018-10-22T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b5670fbea608a116e8ab97ae6bfb09cc"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:37:29","slug":"european-japanese-mission-to-investigate-the-smallest-planet-in-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=537426","title":{"rendered":"European-Japanese mission to investigate the smallest planet in the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European-Japanese planetary mission BepiColombo lifted off from the European spaceport in French Guiana at 03:45 Central European Summer time on 20 October 2018 (22:45 on 19 October local time), on board an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. &#8220;Not only is the mission designed to investigate the planet Mercury, it will also deliver new insights into the Solar System,&#8221; explains Walther Pelzer, Executive Board Member for the Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum f\u00fcr Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). &#8220;Once again, by rising to this immense challenge, Japan is proving to be a dependable aerospace partner for Europe.&#8221; The spacecraft&#8217;s cosmic journey through the inner Solar System will last approximately seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European-Japanese planetary mission BepiColombo lifted off from the European spaceport in French Guiana at 03:45 Central European Summer time on 20 October 2018 (22:45 on 19 October local time), on board an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. &#8220;Not only is the mission designed to investigate the planet Mercury, it will also deliver new insights into the Solar System,&#8221; explains Walther Pelzer, Executive Board Member for the Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum f&uuml;r Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). &#8220;Once again, by rising to this immense challenge, Japan is proving to be a dependable aerospace partner for Europe.&#8221; The spacecraft&#8217;s cosmic journey through the inner Solar System will last approximately seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537427,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537426\/revisions\/537427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}